April 1999

Xoanon here, Am I desperate for news? Am I looking for ANYTHING to write while I wait for theonering.net to come online? (what? Who said that?) I recieved this E-mail from someone I don't even know (and I won't mention them untill this rumor comes true). mehr über Aragorn Casting?...

Liz Berry and Kylee Southon saw the long and the short of it yeasterday. The Nelson pair were two of the more then 500 hopefuls who turned up to Wellington's National Dance and Drama Centre in a bid to become extras in film director Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. mehr über The height of fame...

Erica slipped me this juicy tidbit abut an artist named John Howe, now he's done some LOTR art before, if you don't know him you probably know his work. Apparantly Howe was at a Sci-Fi convention in NZ and let slip that he and the art team have built a 7-metre-high model of Barad -Dur out of plasticine for LOTR. mehr über Barad-Dur Model?...

Xoanon passed along the above image (apparently originally from TVOne.co.nz), which depicts part of the land being developed for use in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. mehr über "Lord of the Rings" Pic & Rumor...

On Saturday 27 March, I (Harry from AICN) met Tom Baker (ex-Doctor Who and brilliant bloke) at a literary evening, and he informed me that the following day he was travelling to London to audition for the part of Gandalf in "Lord of the Rings". mehr über Tom Baker as Gandalf?...